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Then What Happened? The Golden Age of Secrets and Deceits
Churchill. Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam: three men pretending to agree. Note that Stalin brought guys with machine guns—just in case.The Cold War (a phrase first coined by George Orwell in 1945) began at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, when the victorious allies...
Then What Happened? The Nene and the Mig
A Mig 15 says hello.In my last blog we discussed the Tupolev Tu-4 bomber, a remarkable reengineered clone of the B29. This time let’s look at the series of developments that led to the highly successful Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter. At the end of World War II...
Then What Happened?
AI generated image of a Tu 4 and a B 29.Last month I published Triumph and Tragedy, the sixth book in my Breaking Point series. As my readers know, there’s a book for each year of World War II, beginning in 1940. Triumph and Tragedy takes place as the war ends in...
Triumph and Tragedy 1945
In my recent blogs we have been examining the last months of World War II, which ended, in the words of Winston Churchill, in both triumph and tragedy. My new book will be published on May 8th, VE Day, and I borrowed Churchill’s words as the title. Two stories play...
Countdown to Victory: March 1945
In our last blog we saw the Allies successfully crossing the Rhine into western Germany in March 1945 and it was clear that Hitler’s Third Reich would soon be defeated. In the Pacific, on the other hand, the war was far from over. Here is a key event in that long...
Countdown to Victory: March 1945
Crossing the Rhine March 1945A 30-ton Sherman tank crosses the Ludendorff bridge while, to the right, welders work to prevent the bridge from collapsing—eventually it did.In March 1945, 81 years ago this month, the western allies were able, at long last, to cross the...
